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No. 655,045. Patented luly 3|, laud.

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(Application filed gov. 21, 1899.)

(No Model.)

, of same, and Fig. 3 is FFI Ge SEBASTIAN BENDER, OF ALLMENDINGEN,GERMANY.

SEPARATOR.

SPECIFICATION fprming part of Letters Patent No. 655,045, dated July 31,1900. Application filed November 21, I899. Serial No. 737,966. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SEBASTIAN BENDER, a subject of the German Emperor,residing at Allmendingen,nearUlm-on-the-Danube,Ger-

many, have invented new and useful Im provements in Apparatus forRecovering Oils from Condensation-Water by Filtration, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The present invention relates to an improved apparatus for the recoveryof cylinder-lubricating and other oils from the condensation-Water ofsteam-engines, the purpose of the invention being to produce a devicethat is automatic and only in action when required.

With these ends in View the invention consists in certain novel featuresof construction and combinations of parts, as will be more fullydescribed hereinafter.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which form part of thisspecification, Figure 1 shows a vertical longitudinal section of myimproved apparatus.

a section on line A B of Fig. 2.

The water mixed with the oil enters the box-like receptacle or trough I)through the admission-tube a. Said receptacle h is fitted with inclinedtwigs or bristles c, which serve as a filter for the water by preventingthe passage of the oil contained in the water which collects at thesurface thereof. A rotating screw-like brush d or the like, which isslightly immersed in the water, absorbs the oil from the surface of thewater and carrying it with it deposits the oil particles during itsrotation at an inclined channel fiwhich is fitted with bristles e, fromwhich channel fit can easily be collected in a vessel or receptacleplaced under the mouth of same. The water thus freed from the oil passesunder the partition-wall g, fitted in the vessel b, and issues throughthe exit-tube h.

The partition-wall 9 serves for the purpose of-preventing the exit ofthe oil collected at the surface through the tube h of the water.

The exit-tube h is fitted with a branch 7c, fitted with a cock 2', fromwhich issues a portion of the water running through the tube It onto arotating water-Wheel m, journaled in suitable bearings in a bracket Z,fitted to the Fig. 2 is a plan view,

receptacle 5. Said Water-wheel m is in connection with suitablepower-transmission means-such, for instance, as pulleys n o and anendless belt or rope p-for the purpose of imparting motion to thescrew-like brush 01, previously referred to.

The receptacle q, provided beneath the mouth of the exit-tube h andbeneath the water-wheel m, serves for collecting the water, from whenceit can be removed by way of the branch 7.

Instead of only employing a portion of the water running through thetube 72. for thepurpose of driving the water-wheel m the whole of samecan be allowed to issue onto the waterwheel by a single tube.

The apparatus as hereinbefore described will only then automaticallystart its action when condensation Water passes through same, thescrew-like brush d requiring the passage of the water through theapparatus for its actuation.

Instead of the water-wheel m a conveyerscrew or a turbine may beemployed.

Having now particularly described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. In an apparatus for therecovery of oil from condensation-water by filtration,a brush rotatablysupported so as to be immersed in the oil collected at the surface ofthe water, in combination with means for receiving the oil from therotary brush and means for actuating the latter by the filtered water,sub stantially as described and shown.

2. In an apparatus for the recovery of oil from condensation-water byfiltration,in combination with the rotary brush immersed in the oilcollected at the surface of the water a brush-like wiper fitted to achannel for receiving the oil from said rotary brush, and means foractuating the latter by the filtered water, substantially as describedandfshown.

3. In an apparatus for the recovery of oil from condensation-Water byfiltration in com bination with the rotary brush and with the brush-likeWiper and guide-channel for leading away the oil recovered, awater-wheel or its equivalent, driven by the filtered Water issuing onsame, for actuating the rotary brush, substantially as described andshown.

4. In an apparatus for the recovery of oil from condensation-water incombination, a vessel receiving the condensation-water, filtering meansin said vessel causing the oil to 5 collect at the surface of the water,a rotary brush supported so as to be immersedinthe' .oil at the surfaceof the Water,-a'channe1 with brush-like Wiper for receiving the oil fromthe rotary brush, a Water-wheel or its equivae 1o lent driven by thefiltered Water issuing from the vessel serving for, actuating the rotarybrush, substantially as described and shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witmesses.

SEBASTIAN BENDER.

Witnesses E y HEINRIGH WOLFER,

HERMAN WAGNER.

